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Definition of Caitiff

Caitiff
Caitiff Cai"tiff, n. A captive; a prisoner. [Obs.] Avarice doth tyrannize over her caitiff and slave. --Holland. 2. A wretched or unfortunate man. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 3. A mean, despicable person; one whose character meanness and wickedness meet. Note: The deep-felt conviction of men that slavery breaks down the moral character . . . speaks out with . . . distinctness in the change of meaning which caitiff has undergone signifying as it now does, one of a base, abject disposition, while there was a time when it had nothing of this in it. --Trench.

Meaning of Caitiff from wikipedia

- Look up caitiff in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Caitiff (literally a de****able coward or wretch) may mean: a galley-slave in a Barbary bagnio a Camarilla...
- The Caitiff Choir is the debut studio album by American metalcore band It Dies Today, released on September 21, 2004, by Trustkill Records. Music videos...
- band achieved success in 2004 with the release of their debut album, The Caitiff Choir. After frontman Nicholas Brooks departed in 2006, just after the...
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- and pity for the human condition". It in part translates as: "But now a caitiff poor am I, deep in the ground lo here I lie. My beauty great is all quite...
- The Caitiff Choir (2004) Sirens (2006) Lividity (2009)...
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- along the Song-Liao border to thwart potential Khitan cavalry attacks. The caitiff government is very harsh, and [the people of ] You and Ji abhor it. The...
- is something they are Embraced into. Those without a clan are known as Caitiff, and are considered outsiders.: 19–22  Vampire: The Masquerade introduces...
- "caitiffs". Cervantes himself had been imprisoned in Algiers (1575–1580). His novel Don Quixote also features a subplot with the story of a caitiff (chapters...